Excelsior (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ...
Poems about heavenward (22 Poems)
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Endymion: Book IV (John Keats Poem)
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Smoke (Erica Jong Poem)
Smoke, it is all smoke in the throat of eternity. . . . For centuries, the air was full of ...
I. THE PARIAH’S PRAYER (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
DREADED Brama, lord of might! All proceed from thee alone; Thou art he who judgeth right! Dost thou none but ...
A Poet’s Death is His Life IV (Khalil Gibran Poems)
The dark wings of night enfolded the city upon which Nature had spread a pure white garment of snow; and ...
Majestic Wings (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As if on the majestic wings, of the regal bird, the eagle of the sky rising effortlessly, ascending heavenward Hope ...
The Certainty of the Kingdom (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It will surely come growing in ways mysterious unknowable, how the seed becomes the grain hidden first underground then in ...
Waiting for the Wind (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
a cluster of open milkweed pods brown flat seeds, a ball of cotton candy silk waiting for the wind, to ...
Fallen Petals (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Just fallen petals in the wet green grass shimmering in the late afternoon filtered sunlight after the rain rich color, ...
Celestial Squid (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Off in the distance Rising heavenward before me as I draw toward home, late this September afternoon White lines in ...
Bark (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A living Ansel Adams tableau white birches stretching heavenward over a winter scene of white on white A monochromatic world ...
The Silken Tent (Robert Frost Poem)
She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when the sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew ...
Four Riddles (Lewis Carroll Poem)
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
Severed and Gone (Anne Bronte Poem)
Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears ...
Transfiguration (Louisa May Alcott Poem)
Mysterious death! who in a single hour Life's gold can so refine And by thy art divine Change mortal weakness ...
Conversation (Ai Poem)
We smile at each other and I lean back against the wicker couch. How does it feel to be dead? ...
Thyrsis, a Monody (Matthew Arnold Poem)
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
Faint Yet Pursuing (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Heroic Good, target for which the young Dream in their dreams that every bow is strung, And, missing, sigh Unfruitful, ...
To A Buddha Seated On A Lotus (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
LORD BUDDHA, on thy Lotus-throne, With praying eyes and hands elate, What mystic rapture dost thou own, Immutable and ultimate? ...
Marie Bateson (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
You observe the carven hand With the index finger pointing heavenward. That is the direction, no doubt. But how shall ...
From The Flats. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
What heartache -- ne'er a hill! Inexorable, vapid, vague and chill The drear sand-levels drain my spirit low. With one ...